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 * Topic Lesson 9: **//Storm Warriors//**

Common Core Standards RL 5.1 Quote accurately from a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text. W.1.a-d Write opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information. W 5.5 With guidance and support from peers and adults, develop and strengthen writing as needed by planning, revising, editing and rewriting.

Suggested Student Objectives 1. Students will draw conclusions from text details. 2. Students will make predictions and inferences. 3. Students will write a response to literature.

Suggested Additional Readings Literary Texts
 * __Sink or swim: African- American Lifesavers of the Outer Banks__ by Carole Boston Weatherford
 * __Shipwrecked: The True Story of a Japanese Boy__ by Rhoda Blumberg

Resource Links
 * http://www.nancykeane.com/booktalks/carbone_storm.htm
 * http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/storm-warriorsdiscussion-guide

Activities
 * **Your Turn,** Student Book, page 237. Students will work with a partner and choose one of the actvities: "Action" or "The Power of the Sea."
 * Students will read,"Pea Island's Forgotten Heroes,"on pages 238 and 239 in their reader.

Assessments 1. Practice Book, pages 97-98 2. Writing Rubric 1-4, See TE T273 and R18 3. Weekly Test 9.4-9.5

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